Greensboro City Attorney Mujeeb Shah-Khan has resigned as questions continue over the handling of a $1.5 million loan to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

City officials said released a statement around 6:30 p.m. following a roughly 90-minute emergency council meeting that went into closed session.

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Shah-Khan will get six months of severance pay totaling about $83,000. Mayor Nancy Vaughan said an interim city attorney will be appointed while a national search for Shah-Khan's replacement begins.

The News and Record reported Shah-Khan allowed the city to cut a $750,000 check to the museum in October despite the loan agreement not being signed. The city's finance director disagreed with the decision.

In a meeting Tuesday afternoon, a city attorney said Greensboro had no right to recover the $750,000.

The museum has faced several challenges as of late. The building has lost about $10 million in value since it was purchased, and the museum has had three different chairpersons in four months.

Shah-Khan had been the city's attorney since May 2012. He came from the City of Charlotte, where he spent five years as a senior assistant city attorney.